Legal Opinion

Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Robinson

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided February 2, 1868PublishedCited by 19 opinions

CASE 56 — PETITION' ORDINARY APPEAL PEOM JEPPEESON OOUET OP COMMON PLEAS. CITED— 2 Duvall, 118; Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. vs. Collins. Law Register, March No., 1866, Redfield’s notes. CITED— 4 Met., 49; 1 McMullen, 385. 2 Duvall, 118; Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. vs. Collins. 3 Mus. 4* Welsh., 1; Priestly vs. Fowler. 1 Bush, 402; Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. vs. Young.

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE ROBERTSON

delivered the opinion oe tiie court:

This appeal is prosecuted for reversing a judgment in the appellee’s favor against the appellant for five thousand dollars, on a verdict for that amount in an action for the loss of a leg by being run over by a locomotive engine and tender, in the yard of the depot at Bowling Green, Kentucky. There were three tracks in the yard, with switches for regulating the movements of trains and engines coming in and going out. The engine and tender which ran on the appellee belonged to the passenger train, and the appellee was brakesman on a freight…

2Cited by19 opinions

  1. Randall v. Baltimore & Ohio RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  2. Louisville & Nashville R. R. v. LoweCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1904
  3. Louisville & N. R. R. v. BrownCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1908
  4. Macon v. Paducah St. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals of Kentucky · 1901
  5. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. McCoyCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1883

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